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So it would be " label:" and not "-label:" but "-composite" and not " composite" . okaaay. Thanks.
Not quite, note the blue
convert image.tiff ^
( -clone 1 -background none -fill somecolor -font somefont -pointsize somepointsize label: @c:\wip\Text2Show.txt ) ^
-gravity North -geometry +X+Y ...

convert %1 ( -clone 1 composite -label:@c:\wip\Text2Show.txt -gravity North %1 %2\%1 ) -delete 1 %1

See my post above. You cannot put composite in a convert command nor another convert . Also it is not -label: but just label:

convert image.tiff ^
( -clone 1 -background none -fill somecolor -font ...

If you want the text to be readable, this isn't really a watermark. Watermarks are generally designed to be hardly visible at all.
See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/ for lots of possibilities.
using ImageMagick-6.8.6-9 . So I should use
convert %1 ( -clone 1 composite -label:@c:\wip ...

Thanks for the replies, I didn't expect them so quickly so had not turned on the tiff pc :) .
I was hoping that one of the scripting languages would be able to call an object reference to the 2nd page, but if not doable then batch file it is.
I need the files to keep their names as they will be ...

I have been unable to figure out a DOS command line to
take a 2 page tiff
put a watermark on just the 2nd page of the tiff (annotate would be fine too)
save resulting tiff with both pages , preferably as a 'Save As' to replace the original tiff.

We have many tiffs to process each day, so batching ...